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Welfarism and information invariance

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  • Walter Bossert

    (Department of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK)

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This paper examines the consequences of imposing general information-invariance conditions in the context of welfarist social-welfare functionals. Dual relationships between invariance axioms for social-welfare functionals and the corresponding properties of the associated social-welfare orderings are established. Unlike most of the literature on information assumptions in social-choice theory, the paper does not restrict attention to invariance conditions that can be defined in terms of admissible utility transformations and, instead, employs a more general approach.

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  • Walter Bossert, 2000. "Welfarism and information invariance," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 17(2), pages 321-336.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:17:y:2000:i:2:p:321-336
    Note: Received: 6 October 1997/Accepted: 17 March 1999
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    1. Blackorby, Charles & Bossert, Walter & Donaldson, David, 1999. "Price-Independent Welfare Prescriptions and Population Size," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 84(1), pages 111-119, January.
    2. Hirofumi Yamamura, 2017. "Interpersonal comparison necessary for Arrovian aggregation," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 49(1), pages 37-64, June.
    3. Andrew McKay & Oliver Morrissey & Charlotte Vaillant, 1998. "Aggregate Export and Food Crop Supply Response in Tanzania," Discussion Papers 98/4, University of Nottingham, CREDIT.

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